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Public bored by climate change, says IPPR
Ecologist
17th September, 2009
Government and business face a big challenge in changing the public’s use of energy at home and reducing the UK’s overall carbon emissions, according to report more...
The psychology of climate change: why we do nothing
Tom Levitt
12th August, 2009
Well-publicised simple steps like using energy-saving light bulbs may be making it more difficult to prepare people for the bigger changes needed to tackle climate change, argue psychologistsmore...
Lost in translation
Ed Gillespie
1st December, 2008
The way we present the fight against climate change can be as important as the fight itself. It ain’t what you say, it’s the way that you say it, counsels Ed Gillespie more...How to beat denial - a 12-step plan
Pat Thomas
1st December, 2006
It’s easy to feel so overwhelmed by the problems facing our planet that we turn away to whatever will cheer us. Pat Thomas shows us the pattern of climate change denial more...
Stanley Milgram's obedience experiment
Tom Stafford
1st June, 2003
In the 1960s psychologist Stanley Milgram tested a cross section of ordinary Americans to see if they’d administer potentially lethal electric shocks to a mild-mannered little man, sitting in an electric chair. The findings stunned the world. more...








